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Children's Swim Classes:

Parent/Tot You and your child will:
Infant Level (6-18 months)

• Be exposed to water adjustment activities
• Experience supported movement
• Be introduced to appropriate water safety skills

Toddler Level (18-36 months)

• Be exposed to water adjustment activities


• Practice elementary forms of propulsive aquatic movements


• Observe & practice, effective use of flotation devices
• Experience appropriate water safety skills

Your child will:

Preschool Level (3-5 years)

• Participate in basic and/or advanced independent propulsive swimming movements
• Be exposed to appropriate water safety skills
• Experience elementary and/or propulsive swimming movements
• Practice combined skills for basic swimming strokes in preparation for Red Cross Pre-Beginner courses

Level I Pre-Beginner
Water Exploration  (ages 5 and up)

• Fully submerge mouth, nose, eyes
• Experience buoyancy


• Experience supported float on front & back


• Blow bubbles


• Enter & exit water independently


• Move through water comfortably


• Experience supported kicking on front & back


• Learn an introduction to alternating arm action


• Learn basic water safety rules


• Learn how to use a PFD in the water


• How to get help in and around the water

Level II Beginner
Primary Skills

• Hold breath & fully submerge head


• Retrieve objects in chest deep water


• Orientation to deep water


• Front & Back float and glide, unsupported


• Leveling off from a vertical position


• Rhythmic breathing


• Bobbing underwater


• Flutter kick on front and back


• Finning on back


• Swim on front & back using kick & alternating arm action


• Float in life jacket with face out of water


• Perform reaching & extension assist on deck


• How to get help in and around the water

Level III Advanced Beginner
Stroke Readiness

• Retrieve objects, eyes open, no support


• Bob in water slightly over head, travel to shallow water


• Jump into deep water from side of pool


• Dive from side of pool from kneeling & sitting position


• Front and back glide with push-off from wall
• Coordinate arm stroke for front crawl with breathing to the side


• Coordinate back crawl


• Butterfly kick


• Reverse direction while swimming on front and back


• Learn safe diving rules


• Tread water


• H.E.L.P. position
• Perform reaching assist

Level IV Intermediate
Stroke Development

• Rotary breathing


• Standing dive from side of pool in compact or stride position


• Swims elementary backstroke, front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, and butterfly
• Learns scissor kick


• Introduction to turns
• Feet first surface dive
• Learns throwing assist

Level V Advanced Intermediate
Advanced Intermediate

• Performs front crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, back crawl, elementary backstroke and sidestroke
• Swimming under water


• Learns flip turns
• Performs shallow dive from side
• Treads water
• Learn both pike and tuck surface dive

Level VI Swimmer

• Note: Level VI is comprised of 4 different components with general swimming tasks common to all components. Once the child participates and passes one component they have passed the whole level and completed the program. The component taught will depend on the semester and the number of students enrolled in level VI. Please also note, the component taught will be decided by the CSP Director after the first day of classes.

  Skills Common to all Four Components:

  •  Front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, butterfly strokes

  •  Open turns

  •  Flip turns

  Plus one of the Four:

  Fitness Swimming:

  •  Swimming etiquette

  •  Use a pace clock

  •  Use pull buoys, fins, and paddles

  •  Training techniques

  •  Principles of water exercise

  Lifeguard Readiness:

  •  Tread Water

  •  Compact Jump

  •  Rescue approach strokes

  •  Rescue assists

  •  Rescue breathing

  Personal Water Safety:

  •  Survival floats

  •  Survival swimming

  •  Safety rules for boating

  •  Tread water

  •  H.E.L.P. and Huddle Positions

  Diving:

  •  Diving progression

  •  Standing dive from diving board

  •  Pike dive

  •  Tuck dive